I'm going to Ozempic.

Not gonna change anything

i'm obese, r1. i need to lose 30 lbs to be in the normal range.

if i stay on this trajectory, i will die from high blood pressure or heart disease.

This is a development over the past 2 years. I have been in normal weight range much of my life.

Sorry, typo...40 lbs.

OP, good for you. I was on Saxenda and Wegovy for about six months, before switching to Zepbound about eight months ago. I've lost over 25 pounds. It's also almost completely taken away any craving or interest in alcohol. Drinking has never been an issue for me. In fact, the effect the GLP-1/GIP drugs have had on my alcohol interest is so extreme, I kind of miss being able to have a couple drinks or glasses of wine with friends. But, in the scheme of things I figure all the results the drugs are providing me are good ones...even the practically non-existent interest in alcohol. Good luck!

I have Ozempic in my fridge right now. Going to start taking it on Sun. I am 100 lbs overweight and have Type 2 diabetes, high bp, etc. Hoping it will help me and side effects will be tolerable. OP let's do this together!

I want to stop my food and alcohol cravings. r5...i'm with you.

I'm using henrymeds as it's what my friend used.

I don't know what henrymeds is but I hate being fat.

there are numerous websites out there, but henrymeds.com is what my friend chose...i'm not trying to schill for it as there are many out there that offer the same services/prices/meds.

One of my female friends just asking me about this cus I am doing it the old fashioned way, diet and exercise. But according to her, there are at least 6 other brands that do the same thing as Ozempic and from the sound of it, all her girl friends are all over that shit. Way too many people using that stuff without knowing long term side effects.

Every time they come up with a new weight loss drug, everyone climbs on board like a piece of wood floating from the Titanic. In a few years watch them discover something like heart valve abnormalities or brain tumors or some other hidden damage. Happens every time.

i've decided to start after the new year. my birthday is on the 4th.

A happy birthday and new year to myself in my 56th year.

[quote] In a few years watch them discover something like heart valve abnormalities or brain tumors or some other hidden damage. Happens every time.

R9 Your comments make clear that you don't know much, if anything, about how these drugs work. They work with the body's digestive hormones to help better regulate digestion and the body's use / activation of insulin. These drugs also aren't new. They've been approved and on the market for years, initially for use with obese T2 diabetes patients but studied in trials over a number of years once the weight loss effects were discovered.

I've been on these drugs going on a year and a half now. This is the first time I've ever taken a medication for weight loss. I'm not a "bandwagon" type. I never did fen-phen, ephedra, or any of the prior fad crap. On GLP-1s/GIPs, I've lost 25 pounds and counting -- weight that was never going to come off otherwise, despite my being reasonably active on my Peloton several days a week and eating a mostly decent diet.

As part of my Descovy prep, I get full labs done every three months. Since starting these drugs, my A1C and blood glucose levels (not in the danger zone to begin with) have both dropped significantly and are well within the normal ranges. My blood pressure has also been more stable and more consistently in normal range.

So, ok. Sure. We'll see if there are new dangers discovered from these drugs in the future, and if so, I'll cross that bridge if I come to it. But past doesn't always mean prologue. So far, the effects that these drugs have had on my overall health have been 100% positive.

FAT LAZY CUNT!!!!

PUT IN THE WORK AND YOU WON'T NEED OZEMPIC, YOU GODDAMNED USELESS LAZY FUCK!!!!!!

[quote]Your comments make clear that you don't know much, if anything, about how these drugs work.

Oh please, that's the same crap I heard with Fen-phen came out. "Totally safe! Been tested for years! If you disagree with me you don't know what you are talking about!!!"

LAZY FUCKER!

TRY GETTING OFF YOUR FAT ASS AND EXERCISING, INSTEAD OF TAKING THE EASY WAY OUT LIKE YOU'VE DONE YOUR WHOLE USELESS LIFE!!!!

My doctor says that you lose muscle mass, and with it your ability to metabolize calories. So the few people I know who have used these GLP medications have done CrossFit and gladiator type “boot camp” workouts to maintain muscle mass.

I’d like to understand how well patients do when they stop these medications. Specifically, how can you recover muscle mass if you lose that in the course of appetite suppression. I’d also be concerned for changes to your lower digestive system if the passage of food through it is slower than it would be without this intervention.

My doctor says I will need to stay on it for life now. I am ok with that. Due to risk factors my life will be shorter anyhow. Likely only another 20 years. And anyhow I can't afford to retire.

If you have surgery, you have to be off Ozempic for two weeks.

The side effects of being obese and an alcoholic are far worse than Ozempic. Happy you’re taking control and doing something about it

[quote]My doctor says that you lose muscle mass, and with it your ability to metabolize calories. So the few people I know who have used these GLP medications have done CrossFit and gladiator type “boot camp” workouts to maintain muscle mass.

You need to have an adequate protein adequate to prevent the muscle loss. And some exercise is important, but “boot camp” style workouts aren’t necessary.

Godspeed OP…it will help!

Denzel?

[quote]I'm going to Ozempic.

I'm going to Ibiza.

Ozempic, while it causes weight loss, is a drug designed to treat diabetics, not alcoholics.

Anyone taking it should be under the care of an endocrinologist because it’s a diabetic drug. You need not only regular bloodwork every 3 months but a physical examination every six months or less. There’s a black box warning on the side of a real Ozempic box (which you won’t be getting online, because it’s not real Ozempic from Novo-Nordisk but rather a recipe made by a compounding pharmacy and good luck with how clean their processes are: read about the dozens of patients killed by infections caused by unsterile conditions in compounding labs) saying it can cause thyroid cancer which only a doc can diagnose.

Finally, because it’s a drug for diabetics that’s in short supply, anyone taking it for other reasons is denying it to people who need it for diabetes.

I've been on it for two months now.

I am diabetic, and have been yo-yo dieting since I was in elementary school. It has not been, for me, the silver bullet for weight loss has been for others. I'm willing to give it some time though, as my blood sugar level has gone down considerably. Also, I get it through the pharmacy at my job (college campus,) so I get a considerable discount beyond insurance.

Here's what I was not prepared for...

Incredibly painful, terrifying heartburn. Seriously, a week or so ago, I thought I was going to die. It felt like someone had a lasso around my midsection and kept pulling it tighter and tighter. Very convinced it was the end for me. Went to my neighbor's (he's a nurse) door. He gave me a Nexium and some ginger ale. Two minutes later, I burped the most amazing burp in human history. It has happened a few times since, so I keep Nexium on hand at all times. Apparently, because digestion slows down so much, gas and acid build up more easily.

Burp, my friend. Burp like there is no tomorrow.

They are studying it for alcoholics. It worked on this one

R23 You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.

Wait for the rabbit-pellet shits.

my friend has been on this for over 6 months. at first she got the cheap shit and she felt like throwing up all the time and she did (many times), she was also constipated...then her friend gave her the real shit and she still felt like throwing up...she couldn't drink as much as she liked, she would throw up. she decided to take a break coz she ran out of it...and she gained weight.

how are you supposed to store it? In the fridge? Can't leave it in room temp? what about the freezer?

I tried Ozempic but it had horrible side effects.

[quote] how are you supposed to store it? In the fridge? Can't leave it in room temp? what about the freezer?

No freezer. You're supposed to keep it in the fridge until you use it, but once it's in use you can store it at room temp for like 30 days or so.

I lost 40 pounds and get it off sans drugs. I was also an alcoholic and quit 17 years ago sans drugs but with therapy.

That said- I think these drugs are a godsend to certain folks but if you are an alcoholic or food addict you will need therapy.

If you overeat and eat crappy food on these drugs, you’ll feel like shit. If you eat more nutritious foods and smaller portions, you’ll feel good. And lose weight. The drugs cause you to feel full almost all of the time. Eating smaller, more nutritious meals is the key.

Since I decided w my GP to go on Ozempic I have now learned like 30% of my office is on it. Some of them for several years. The things you learn!

The Ozempic may well help overcome your addiction, OP.

I used to be a “foodie”. Likes to plan restaurant outings and menus. Now I enjoy what I eat, but I don’t get that pleasurable anticipation from it. And I don’t care so much what I eat. The “food noise” has diminished.

[quote]Ozempic, while it causes weight loss, is a drug designed to treat diabetics, not alcoholics.

Except those conditions go together.

Ozempic helps all dopamine based habits. I quit biting my nails, quit drinking, quit shopping compulsively, quit nicotine. All of it.

Good luck, everyone.

yeah but it all comes back if you stop

My friend said it didn't matter what she ate, she still felt like throwing up...

this friend also told me that she used to drink vodka but now she can't drink vodka while on ozempic...the only booze she can drink is sweet like amaretto

Why would you have to stop it when it is medically indicated? I'm not fucking Sharon Osborne taking it to lose 20 lbs when I already have a gastric bypass FFS.

Does ozempic stop sex addiction?

if so, I don't want it

The heart is a muscle, so anything that causes muscle loss is also not good for the heart.

Not eating enough protein causes the muscle loss. No ozempic.

Ozempic thy name is Datalounge.

ANY diet/weight loss method you undertake, if you don't increase your protein level and boost your muscle mass, is going to result in muscle loss.

Period. Any diet.

I’d still worry about issues with your lower digestive system, like fecal impaction and gastroparesis. That sounds really painful and humiliating if you end up in treatment. I suspect it isn’t commonly discussed, though. An Impacted and/paralyzed colon sounds like a very delicate, painful and smelly situation to resolve.

That happens sometimes when chronic abuse of certain laxatives damages the lining of your colon, and it’s very unpleasant and serious if it progresses to peritonitis. I think there are delicate ciliary hairs and specialized cells involved in forming wastes. I’d hate to have them damaged.

R15, these drugs are meant to be taken in perpetuity.

I hope you wouldn’t advise someone on cholesterol or blood pressure medicine to discontinue use because the drug is working.

I’ve been taking Zepbound for about three and a half months and have lost about 50 pounds.

Other than a bit of constipation (dealt with by taking Miralax) I’ve had no side effects.

For me, getting enough protein is key.

Zepbound, so far, has been a total game changer for me and has vastly improved my quality of life.

I've been on it since July and have lost 35 lbs.

At the beginning I felt a lot of side effects but at this point I just feel an occasional bout of heartburn. The silence of food noise is something I couldn't imagine. I started with extremely healthy meal prep of delicious food to not caring at all. Food has very little appeal to me. It is almost an inconvenience that I experience hunger twice a day and need to eat.

I was a sugar addict, haven't had any since the summer and I don't miss it. I believe over the next few years they will perfect this medication. Obesity will become a thing of the past.

I’m having a 360 Lipo and the surgeon told me that in order to see a great result I have to take ozempic for 6 months.

Are we now using Ozempic as a verb?

[quote] I suspect it isn’t commonly discussed, though

You’re wrong, it’s discussed constantly.

make sure to eat til you puke this holiday season!

I'm on the second lowest dose of Mounjaro and have been for about five months. I need it for the diabetic effect as Metformin isn't punching quite as hard as it used to. I usually develop a resistance to most medications.

My diet is healthy and has been based around protein, vegetables and healthy fats for decades now. It doesn't bother me that it's a bit boring. I have stop buying the odd chocolate bar a few times a year as I never get around to eating them and they are building up. Alcohol no longer does anything for me, which shits me a bit, but I rarely drank anyway because of how much was needed to get even a small effect.

I prefer Mounjaro to Ozempic as it also helps with impulse control in areas completely unrelated to food, whereas Ozempic made some things a little worse in those areas for me.

Saxenda was completely useless for me as I was coming down with every bug going around when taking it and it didn't help with blood sugar issues.

I wish Mounjaro had been available decades ago. It's neuro-protective and with multiple neurological disorders, I really could use something in that area.

I've no doubt that I'll be on Mounjaro or whatever supersedes it for the rest of my life and that the risks of thyroid or pancreatic cancer are something to be careful of.

I thought Ozempic was awesome, but Mounjaro works better for me.

Good luck to those trying any of these meds. For me it's been life changing.